Has she learnt her lines? Oh no she hasn't!

I don't like her anyway at all.

She has been presenting the recent extra camp for Im a Celeb (I don't know how she got this job!!) but how can she not learn her lines?! Terrible.

Samantha Womack looks great though!

The long plane journey home from Australia may have been a good opportunity...

Denise van Outen did the same in the semi-staged Sweet Charity a year ago. It was an insult to the paying public.

Did she?!?! I wouldn't of expected that from Denise, did she use a clipboard too?

I'm joking love, don't take my humour seriously. My life is celebrity culture hahaa.

It was more like an a4 folder she had to keep turning over.

Wish I worked backstage. I'd swap what's on her clipboard for the first 100 pages of something Chekhovian........

.......in Russian.

A few years ago I saw a Nolan sister reading her lines in a panto. Unlike Ms Solomon's fans I was amused rather than 'seething' and 'mortified and angry'. Does it really matter? It's not like a panto depends on any one person and it's hardly Hedda Gabler

Yes, but you're probably going to be paying more than you would for Hedda so you'd expect the 'actors' to be professional.

Also, and I feel strongly about this, panto-bash all you like peoples (and I really do get why people loathe it) but it is many, many children's first foray into theatre and culture so there should be a responsibility from all concerned to do it right.  

I am including children's opportunities to actually perform as well as watch - provincial pantos take from local dance/Saturday drama schools and this experience gives many kids the bug.

Knock it all you like, hate it all you like, but it really does serve a purpose!

I read it was one scene, and if the rest of the panto was enjoyable enough and she's got it sorted out by now, I'm inclined to let it slide. Pantomime is in many ways antithetical to the theatre we all see the rest of the year round (for one thing I spend most of my audience time in a permanent state of "shut up and sit down", not so with panto!), even mentioning a play like Hedda Gabler is bringing in a false equivalency. Panto needs fancy costumes, lovable performers, a baddy who makes you ruin your vocal chords with booing, innuendo, singing, and dancing. If something goes wrong, all the better, it adds to the state of affectionate chaos. I would hope had I been there, I'd have MANY other things to say about the production than "so what about Stacey Solomon's sparkly clipboard, hmmm?".

Or maybe just don't go see it? Lord knows we all have things in the theatrical canon we don't like, but instead of calling for the banning of, say, all Richard Bean plays, I just go and see things I know I stand a better chance of liking instead, and then I talk about the things I did like rather than constantly going into threads explicitly labelled as being about Richard Bean plays just to talk about how much I really can't stand Richard Bean plays. Just a thought there.

*off....!!!